kjpepper | Puddles with endowment issues

as if I wasn't already having trouble filling up my 100 icons, they slap legacy icons on me. Yikes. So now I have 112. And this is number 79. I've always held a fascination for the scary fake British Orbit girl.

alas, the day was not so fabulous... a piercing, skull shattering headache sent me home at 3:30 (granted I wanted to kinda leave then, but matters were (not) helped by the sensation of my eye having a 12 gauge needle shoved through it), and waiting for the bus I picked up a severe chill that I didn't shake until long after I'd come home and pretty much collapsed on sydmor's couch and had

morlock pile blankets on me and fuss about my lack of foot covering and make me cocoa. Even with that it took me an hour or so to finally thaw out, and I still kinda feel shitty. But warmer now. Roasting, even. Still, that's about the fifth time this winter I've taken a chill that severe. Not fun.

there were good bits to my day though. I hate being ill, but I find it both touching and adorable when the sweeties fuss. I managed to sucker

sydneycat into watching West Side Story with me on OnDemand when she came home from the gym (she'd never seen it before). and my bus ride on the way home was significantly better than the one to work, despite the splitting headache and the stomachache of doom. Mostly due to a couple of teenagers having an exchange so amusing it made me wish there was an Overheard in the Valley web site:

Guy1: Ew, scummy lake.
Guy2: Lake?
Guy1: okay... pond.
Guy2: That's a puddle at best!
Guy1: Yeah, okay it's a puddle. Trying to impress its girlfriend.
Guy2: Next thing you know it'll buy itself a harley davidson to compensate for its small size.
Guy1: and you know? That's just sad. Because a puddle really only has one purpose.
Guy2: To Get things wet?
Guy1: Exactly. And that puddle is fully qualified to do its job.
Guy2: Well then someone should go out there and tell it it's okay to be itself.

(they were referring to the yes, quite scummy catchbasin on thr JCPenney of the Hampshire Mall.)